First Up

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray took over as the 18th Chief Minister of
Maharashtra on Thursday evening at Shivaji Park, heading an unlikely alliance
with the Congress and NCP. He is the third Sena leader and first from the
Thackeray clan to take charge as the chief minister the post.

With ideologies being a barrier before the alliance between the Congress, NCP
and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, major challenges lie ahead of the new
government formation as Uddhav Thackeray takes the charge of the CM Monday
evening. Will the Common Minimum Programme be enough to run the state
peacefully?

The Supreme Court is set to pass an order today on holding a crucial floor
test in the Maharashtra Assembly to ascertain whether CM Devendra Fadnavis
enjoyed a majority, as the Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress put up a
public show of strength to claim they have the numbers to form a new
government.

High drama continued in Maharashtra on Sunday after the Supreme Court asked
the Centre to produce the two crucial letters by 10.30 am today.-- one from
BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis claiming a majority, and the other from Governor
BS Koshyari inviting the former to form government in the state.

Israel-based cyber tech firm NSO Group, which was found missing from Israel
has now been tracked down by India Today TV, in France. The NSO officials in
Paris were asked repeated questions over the snooping issue and Pegasus
spyware by India Today TV’s Loveena Tondon.

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have enacted myriad characters on screen, but it
now seems the two titans of Tamil filmdom will join hands for the state's
welfare. The police action on JNU students protesting against hostel fee
hike, disrupted the proceedings of Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Students' Union (JNUSU) will take out a march from the
university campus to Parliament on Monday to protest against the hostel fee
hike. The union said that it will be a march to save public education and
appeal to MPs to take up the cause.